Medieval Clothing and Textiles 6


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CODICE: ISBN 1843835371 EAN 9781843835370
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Medieval Clothing and Textiles 6

PREZZO : EUR 69,00€

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ISBN 1843835371
EAN 9781843835370

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Edited by: , Contributors: , , , , , , , ,

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ANNO:
2010

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Disponibile

CARATTERISTICHE TECNICHE:
174 pages
39 b&w illustrations, 7 color illustrations
Hardback
cm 16 x 24 x 2
gr 705

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Publisher's description:
This sixth volume of Medieval Clothing and Textiles ranges widely, as ever, across England and Europe. It presents two groundbreaking articles in novel areas of textile and dress scholarship: an introduction to a previously unexamined class of embroidery [decorative manuscript repair], and an English-language overview of scholarly research on historical dress in Latvia. Among the other topics considered in the volume are two very different listings of clothing items from medieval Germany: an invented lexicon by the mystic Hildegard of Bingen, and an accounting of specific real garments worn by ordinary people and donated to finance the building of Strasbourg Cathedral. Papers also consider the mercantile world of clothing in medieval London: one gathers insight on dealers of secondhand clothing from the evidence of historical documents, while the other examines the social rise of the mercers in the light of their representation in literature, and their connections to the literary world. Further articles consider luxurious dress accessories with both worldly and spiritual significance, and analyse a French manual for English housewives, illuminating the often-overlooked topic of home linen production.

Contents:
page VII Illustrations
IX Tables
X Contributors
XIII Preface
1 1. Archaeological Dress and Textiles in Latvia from the Seventh to Thirteenth Centuries: Research, Results, and Reconstructions
33 2. Weaving Words in Silk: Women and Inscribed Bands in the Carolingian World
57 3. Stitches, Sutures, and Seams: "Embroidered" Parchment Repairs in Medieval Manuscripts
93 4. Dressing Up the Nuns: The Lingua Ignota and Hildegard of Bingen's Clothing
111 5. Flax and Linen in Walter of Bibbesworth's Thirteenth-Century French Treatise for English Housewives
127 6. The London Mercers' Company, London Textual Culture, and John Gower's Mirour de l'Omme
151 7. Fripperers and the Used Clothing Trade in Late Medieval London
173 8. Donations from the Body for the Soul: Apparel, Devotion, and Status in Late Medieval Strasbourg
206 Recent Books of Interest
216 Contents of Previous Volumes
219 Index


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